Coinciding nicely with a recent assertion of mine that Leicester has given birth to some of the most unlikely pop oddballs over the years, here comes the third single from the city’s brightest young shavers REDCARSGOFASTER courtesy of ever-vigilant Manchester alliance High Voltage Sounds.
And it’s the sound of and increasingly focussed and powerful band putting themselves through the emotional wringer an’ all. Opening with a brooding and melancholic section that favourably recalls unimpeachable touchstones New Order and The Sound, it stretches and comes on all militaristic and discofied at around the 1 minute 30 mark, before deciding this is just a red herring after all and opening the back door for more guitars to scree in and vocalist James to get truly hot under the collar. As with their impressive pair of previous singles, it’s neither regulation fashionable indie nor post-rock and sounds all the better for falling between these cracks.
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B-side (yes, they do still exist) ‘House Of Flies’ cements the good impression and – with its’ jittery bass-driven undertow – shows redcars are well and truly on the trail of epic melancholy these days. They carry it off with conviction to spare, though, and are now beginning to make the transition from simply another bunch of regional weirdos with a daft name to a name to conjure in all the right places. If they’ve more like this, they could well be contenders.
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